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My team and I have recently
been trying to stream line our AIX disaster recovery process. We’ve been
looking for ways to reduce our overall recovery time. Several ideas were tossed
around such as a) using a standby DR LPAR with AIX already installed and using
rsync/scp to keep the Prod & DR LPARs in sync and b) using alt_disk_copy
(with the –O flag for a device reset) to clone rootvg to an alternate disk
which is then replicated to DR. These methods may work but are cumbersome to
administer and (in the case of alt_disk_copy) require... [More]

I’ve been working with a customer recently that required a special kind of disaster recovery capability for their shared storage pool (SSP) environment. The customer had implemented a private cloud solution in their existing POWER environment. The solution consisted of an IBM SmartCloud deployment with IBM Systems Director and VMControl managing the PowerVM deployment of virtual machines (AIX partitions) across the landscape. The decision to use shared storage pools was driven by the fact that the customer was using SAN storage... [More]